About the Authors

Christopher Harris

Contributed equally to this work with: Christopher Harris, Siobhan Crichton

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations MRC & Asthma UK Centre for Allergic Mechanisms in Asthma, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom, Department of Women and Children’s Health, School of Life Course Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, King's College London, London, United Kingdom

Siobhan Crichton

Contributed equally to this work with: Christopher Harris, Siobhan Crichton

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation School of Population Health and Environmental Sciences, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom

Sanja Zivanovic

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations MRC & Asthma UK Centre for Allergic Mechanisms in Asthma, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom, Department of Women and Children’s Health, School of Life Course Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, King's College London, London, United Kingdom

Alan Lunt

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations MRC & Asthma UK Centre for Allergic Mechanisms in Asthma, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom, Department of Women and Children’s Health, School of Life Course Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, King's College London, London, United Kingdom

Sandy Calvert

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Child Health, St George's Hospital, London, United Kingdom

Neil Marlow

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Neonatal Medicine, University College, London, United Kingdom

Janet L. Peacock

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

‡ JLP and AG are equal senior authors on this work.

Affiliations School of Population Health and Environmental Sciences, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom, NIHR Biomedical Centre at Guy’s and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust and King’s College London, London, United Kingdom

Anne Greenough

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

anne.greenough@kcl.ac.uk

‡ JLP and AG are equal senior authors on this work.

Affiliations MRC & Asthma UK Centre for Allergic Mechanisms in Asthma, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom, Department of Women and Children’s Health, School of Life Course Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, King's College London, London, United Kingdom, NIHR Biomedical Centre at Guy’s and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust and King’s College London, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

Professor Greenough has held grants from various manufacturers (Abbot Laboratories, MedImmune) and ventilator manufacturers (SLE). Professor Greenough has received honoraria for giving lectures and advising various manufacturers (Abbot Laboratories, MedImmune) and ventilator manufacturers (SLE). Professor Greenough is currently receiving a non-conditional educational grant from SLE. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials as detailed online in the guide for authors.